Sunday, October 31, 2010

New York Times Discovers That Not All Latinos Think Alike

Shocking news to that paper I'm sure. And a lesson I'm sure they'll quickly forget.
My own Arizona family is of Mexican descent, with the exception of my mother and they are unanimously in favor of the law.
“All Latinos are not opposed to this law — that’s too simplistic,” said Cecilia Menjivar, an Arizona State University sociologist. There are other Mr. Sotelos out there, including an Arizona state legislator, Representative Steve B. Montenegro, a Republican who immigrated from El Salvador and became the only Latino lawmaker to vote in favor of the bill. 

Since Gov. Jan Brewer signed the legislation in April, polls have found that about 70 percent of Latinos nationwide oppose the law, which allows the police to arrest people they suspected of being illegal immigrants, a provision blocked by a federal judge at the request of the Justice Department. 
Of course, the New York Times has still not learned that the law does not allow  "the police to arrest people they suspected of being illegal immigrants." It allows them to ask for documentation verifying their immigration status.

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